Recalibration of the Voyager PRA antenna for polarization sense measurement

Details Recalibration of the Voyager PRA antenna for polarization sense measurement Recalibration of the Voyager PRA antenna for polarization sense measurement

Jan 1994

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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 281, no. 3, p. 945-954

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Calibrating, Radio Antennas, Radio Astronomy, Radiometers, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Attitude (Inclination), Electric Fields, Jupiter Probes, Polarization Characteristics

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The Voyager Planetary Radio Astronomy (PRA) antenna and receiver system provides an indication of the sense of elliptical or circular polarization of radiation that is not correct for all directions of incidence. The true sense could be determined for all directions if accurate calibration data were available. It was not feasible to make the calibration before the Voyagers were launched. Lecacheux & Ortega-Molina (1987), however, were able to derive such calibration data from planetary radio observations made in flight. They expressed their results in terms of the tilt of a plane (the E-plane) that divides the incident ray directions for which the indicated polarization sense is correct from those directions for which the indicated sense is reversed. We demonstrate that there are certain directions for which this calibration is itself in error, and that the surface dividing the two sets of incident rays is more complex than a tilted plane. We are able to make a crude approximation to the true surface from the limited data available.

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